I've seen this many times, where NASA projects grossly live past their expected lifetimes. It's more of a PR stunt, to say that the rovers lived much longer than anybody had ever hoped, and had the rovers failed after 2 months, I'm sure a lot of people would be upset.
I find that in math, if I work on several problems at the same time, all the while surfing or reading/writing email I can get it done just as fast, and perhaps more deeply than if I tackeled each one separately and sequentially. I guess it's the same in programming. If you get stuck on some pesky function, you leave it for a while, work on something else and then come back to it when you have a new idea. Don't tell me people can't multitask. BS.
That is, if they ever decide to make one. For the first two, they had to use a LOT of pigs, because they only look that cute for the first week or so of their lives.
P(A,B) = P(A)P(B) only if A and B are independent. Since they are not, your math is fuzzy. Yeah, you were joking, but the math does allow for such oddities as non-independent events.
It's known by people who work in the field. There are several other blind spots in astronomy, though:
1) the moon (although the moon itself is only ~0.5" across, telescopes need to stay far away from it... 2) the earth (jokingly for earth-based stuff, serious for space telescopes) 3) the galactic plane (unless of course you're looking at stuff in the galactic plane...) 4) andromeda (it's friggin huge!)
About that #14... is there a reason behind it, or did U2 really think that it was 4?
For those who don't know, in U2's "Vertigo," Bono chants at the beginning of the song "uno dos tres quatorce (sp?)" which is "1 2 3 14 in spanish... strange.
Just as dolphins and whales need to go to the surface once in a while to breathe, this thing probably can dive deep, but needs to surface every once in a while to recharge.
I can only say, "WTF"? How does an insightful comment get a -1?
Heh. If I took this seriously, I might feel somewhat concerned by the logic behind that.
Overall, though, I find it more *amusing* that one person's "insightful" equals another's "flamebait" or "troll". I can understand reduntant, or overrated, but flamebait and troll seem mutually exclusive from any positive mods whatsoever.
Strange world we live in. Well... No, just strange people in it.;-)
Yes, calculators should not be allowed in exams. But I disagree that calculators should be left out of class altogether. There's an indispensable program for Mac OS 9 called "Graphing Calculator." It's a great way to visualize just about anything from functions in R2 to vector fields, parametric equations, functions of R and theta, etc etc etc. Pacific-T is porting the program right now to OS X (it's in beta right now) and I truly believe it should be in every classroom in the country, from kindergarden up to high school.
I think the objection is not that the money is being spent, but that it's being spent in a careless manner. Because this manned mars program is so expensive, other programs, scientific programs, will have to be cut. NASA has a long history of doing both extremely useful things, and pointless things. The Space Shuttle and the ISS come to mind as complete wastes of money, whereas Hubble, the current mars rovers, and countless other unmanned missions have been great successes. Which would you rather have?
Well I guess that just means its time to switch over to my golfball gun or spudgun... Bwa ha ha ha
... *THWUP*... no, coupled with your shopping habits (2 bags of potatoes and 5 cans of various hair spray?), I'm sure they'll find a way to figure it out.
I don't need a MRI to tell me that lying is harder than telling the truth. When you lie, you need to invent a story and make it convincing. The fear of getting caught kicks in, as does the guilt of lying: the mind starts racing. Perhaps it would be interesting to see how the MRIs of habitual liars differ from "normal" liars. Does the absence of fear and guilt change the amount of work done by the brain, or do lawyers and such work just as hard as we do?
If you've ever looked at a clock while gaming, you'd see that the hands move much faster. 1 hour goes by in a snap. More importantly, it's more expensive than a movie, and movies are designed for the time period, pack more into them, and are generally more interesting.
I have a feeling that the type of person who would do this aready owns an alienware and a hdtv...
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I've seen this many times, where NASA projects grossly live past their expected lifetimes. It's more of a PR stunt, to say that the rovers lived much longer than anybody had ever hoped, and had the rovers failed after 2 months, I'm sure a lot of people would be upset.
They're not calling those "camgirl bloggers' people of the year, it's more like dailykos, or, shudder, freerepublic.
I hate to say it, but if everybody from a town dies, there's not much use in that town being its original size.
I find that in math, if I work on several problems at the same time, all the while surfing or reading/writing email I can get it done just as fast, and perhaps more deeply than if I tackeled each one separately and sequentially. I guess it's the same in programming. If you get stuck on some pesky function, you leave it for a while, work on something else and then come back to it when you have a new idea. Don't tell me people can't multitask. BS.
That is, if they ever decide to make one. For the first two, they had to use a LOT of pigs, because they only look that cute for the first week or so of their lives.
P(A,B) = P(A)P(B) only if A and B are independent. Since they are not, your math is fuzzy. Yeah, you were joking, but the math does allow for such oddities as non-independent events.
yeah. Degree. That's what I meant. Stupid friggin units!
OOps. I meant half a degree, so 0.5'. The moon is half a DEGREE wide. my bad.
Impressive. Well, that, and it's 3 am... wowowowow rewind. Girl. 5 digit /. id. "Love." Champagne. Wow. I must have fallen asleep on my desk.
It's known by people who work in the field. There are several other blind spots in astronomy, though:
1) the moon (although the moon itself is only ~0.5" across, telescopes need to stay far away from it...
2) the earth (jokingly for earth-based stuff, serious for space telescopes)
3) the galactic plane (unless of course you're looking at stuff in the galactic plane...)
4) andromeda (it's friggin huge!)
For those who don't know, in U2's "Vertigo," Bono chants at the beginning of the song "uno dos tres quatorce (sp?)" which is "1 2 3 14 in spanish... strange.
Just as dolphins and whales need to go to the surface once in a while to breathe, this thing probably can dive deep, but needs to surface every once in a while to recharge.
I can only say, "WTF"? How does an insightful comment get a -1?
Heh. If I took this seriously, I might feel somewhat concerned by the logic behind that.
Overall, though, I find it more *amusing* that one person's "insightful" equals another's "flamebait" or "troll". I can understand reduntant, or overrated, but flamebait and troll seem mutually exclusive from any positive mods whatsoever.
Strange world we live in. Well... No, just strange people in it. ;-)
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Oh, the irony.
How exactly is this redundant? Stupid mods... (I've got karma to burn.)
Yes, calculators should not be allowed in exams. But I disagree that calculators should be left out of class altogether. There's an indispensable program for Mac OS 9 called "Graphing Calculator." It's a great way to visualize just about anything from functions in R2 to vector fields, parametric equations, functions of R and theta, etc etc etc. Pacific-T is porting the program right now to OS X (it's in beta right now) and I truly believe it should be in every classroom in the country, from kindergarden up to high school.
Edible? Well, I don't know about the grits...
I think the objection is not that the money is being spent, but that it's being spent in a careless manner. Because this manned mars program is so expensive, other programs, scientific programs, will have to be cut. NASA has a long history of doing both extremely useful things, and pointless things. The Space Shuttle and the ISS come to mind as complete wastes of money, whereas Hubble, the current mars rovers, and countless other unmanned missions have been great successes. Which would you rather have?
See this comment from 3 days ago.
If they can make it for 30 cents per dose, maybe.
Yes. America has compulsory education all the way through High School (the last 4 years in 12 years of public or private education.)
I don't need a MRI to tell me that lying is harder than telling the truth. When you lie, you need to invent a story and make it convincing. The fear of getting caught kicks in, as does the guilt of lying: the mind starts racing. Perhaps it would be interesting to see how the MRIs of habitual liars differ from "normal" liars. Does the absence of fear and guilt change the amount of work done by the brain, or do lawyers and such work just as hard as we do?
If you've ever looked at a clock while gaming, you'd see that the hands move much faster. 1 hour goes by in a snap. More importantly, it's more expensive than a movie, and movies are designed for the time period, pack more into them, and are generally more interesting.
I have a feeling that the type of person who would do this aready owns an alienware and a hdtv...